God, Medicine, and Suffering

Download or read book God, Medicine, and Suffering written by Stanley Hauerwas and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 1994-12-12 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why does a good and all-powerful God allow us to experience pain and suffering? According to Stanley Hauerwas, asking this question is a theological mistake. Drawing heavily on stories of ill and dying children to illustrate and clarify his discussion of theological-philosophical issues, Hauerwas explores why we so fervently seek explanations for suffering and evil, and he shows how modern medicine has become a god to which we look (in vain) for deliverance from the evils of disease and mortality.